I'll add the abstract when I see it on the  Science website. Archaeologists identify spear tips used in hunting a half-million years ...

A lost civilisation: 3,000-year-old cemetery discovered in Swat The Italian Archaeological Mission on Wednesday discovered an ancient ceme...

Of interest:  The domestic pig (Sus scrofa) is a eutherian mammal and a member of the Cetartiodactyla order, a clade distinct from rodent...

The anthropometric characteristics on pp. 49-50 may also be of interest. It seems Amhara highlanders are shorter, thinner, and  lighter th...

PLoS ONE 7(11): e47881. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047881 Population Genetic Structure and Origins of Native Hawaiians in the Multiethni...

A useful quote: A problematic aspect of the idea of Levantine  Neandertals is that the very features that distinguish them from European N...

The paper I had mentioned earlier is online (and open access!) at the Journal of Human Genetics . From the paper: The SNP genotype data ...

I've been following the #FTDNA2012 tag on twitter where Dr. Mike Hammer has been  talking about A00, the new most basal clade of the hu...

The term "Scythian" is often used to describe a whole host of unrelated peoples across time periods, a practice that is not new ...

I used ALDER with a dataset of populations from the Balkans, Anatolia, and Caucasus, using the She, Japanese, Miaozu, and Dai as East Asian ...

The software will appear here . This has already been used in the recent 1000 Genomes paper. Below is the analysis of the MEX data: I...

Tia Ghose reports from ASHG2012:  To answer that question, Sikora's team sequenced Ötzi's entire genome and compared it with tho...

The following two figures summarize the new phylogenetic information: The discovery of new haplogroup C7 in Italian is potentially...

I don't use the Pan-Asian SNP Consortium data much, but the upcoming paper on the Ainu spurred me to give it a look, because it cont...

Press release , Nature News , and podcast . Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11660 An early and enduring advanced technology originatin...

Genetic kinship found between Ainu and native Okinawans  (The Asahi Shimbun): The researchers examined and compared the DNA of 36 Ainu ...